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Moderate Islamist returns to Somalia for talks

reuters.com
01-Nov-2008 12 related
        

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The Islamist leader of Somalia's moderate opposition faction returned to the Horn of Africa nation on Saturday for the first time in nearly two years to brief local elders on a peace deal with the government.

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Exiled Islamist opposition leader returns to Somalia

xinhuanet.com
01-Nov-2008 3 related
        

MOGADISHU, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, Islamist leader of the opposition faction which recently signed a peace deal with the Somali transitional government in Djibouti, arrived, for the first time in nearly two...

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Somalia roadside bomb kills 3

news24.com
01-Nov-2008 1 related
        

Mogadishu - At least five people were killed on Saturday in a roadside bomb attack targeting a local official in the Somali town of Baidoa, south of Mogadishu, witnesses and police said. The blast went off as district...

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Somali opposition leader returns home to implement peace deal

xinhuanet.com
01-Nov-2008 1 related
        

MOGADISHU, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Sheik Sharif Shiek Ahmed, leader of the main opposition faction which signed a peace deal with the Somali transitional government recently, Saturday arrived in the central Somali town of Jawhar,...

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Grenade attacks kill three in Somalia

iol.co.za
01-Nov-2008 11 related
        

Mogadishu - Grenades killed three civilians and wounded several others on Friday in a southern Somalia town, witnesses said. Assailants hurled a grenade at a crowded market, killing two civilians and injuring a police officer,...

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Militiamen Seize Baidoa Police Station, Two Soldiers Killed in Afgoi

allafrica.com
31-Oct-2008 1 related
        

Firing rocket-propelled grenades and heavy submachine guns, armed tribal militiamen seized a police headquarter at the heart of the government's stronghold in Baidoa on Friday night in a bold attack that witnesses said.

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Somalia: Somaliland Says Suicide Bombers Hail From Mogadishu - Officials

allafrica.com
30-Oct-2008
        

Posted to the web 30 October 2008 Abdinasir Mohamed Guled Mogadishu Officials of Somaliland republic have announced that the suicide bombers hit in several targets in Somaliland and Puntland came from Mogadishu, the Somali...

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Somaliland Says Suicide Bombers Hail From Mogadishu - Officials

allafrica.com
30-Oct-2008
        

Posted to the web 30 October 2008 Abdinasir Mohamed Guled Mogadishu Officials of Somaliland republic have announced that the suicide bombers hit in several targets in Somaliland and Puntland came from Mogadishu, the Somali...

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Lone Children from Somalia Can Stay

sr.se
30-Oct-2008
        

Children from Somalia who have arrived alone in Sweden without parents will be allowed to stay. The Swedish Migration Board’s Decision, which is based on the worsening security situation in the capital, Mogadishu, will affect...

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bbc.co.uk: Hussein Aideed, other faction leaders, at peace talks in Kenya 2004 bbc.co.uk

Timeline

bbc.co.uk
29-Oct-2008 202 related
        

A chronology of key events: 600s - Italian Somaliland combined with Somali-speaking parts of Ethiopia to form a province of Italian East Africa. British and Italian parts of Somalia become independent, merge and form the United...

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